Improvement in safety-pockets



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OHAS. H. BAGLEY, OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO C. E. MASON AND P. S. BARTLETT, OF SAME PLACE.

IM PROVEM ENT IN SAFETYv-VPOCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56, l39, dated July 3, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BAGLEY, of Elgin, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Pocket-Book Protector; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a mode of securing a pocket-book, memorandum-book, bill-holder, or the like in a persons pocket in such manner as to frustrate anyfelonious attempt to abstract the same, but at the same time which willnot hinder the owner of the pocket-book from quickly withdrawing the same whenever occasion may require.

My invention consists in a metallic plate carrying on one sidey a pin and hook for securing it to the clothes of a person, and on the other a spring or the like capable of receiving and retaining a perforated stud which is attached to a pocketbook, memorandum-book, bill-holder, or the like, but in such manner that the pocket-book, &c., may be readily withdrawn from the spring, and as quickly replaced by the person to whom the article belongs, but which will attract the attention of the owner should any felonious attempt be made to abstract the pocket-book.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section of my invention, showing its application. Fig. 2 is a front view of the plate with the'head of the perforated stud removed. Fig. 3 isa view of the back of the plate. Fig. 4 is a view ofthe head of the stud.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A designates a metallic plate, which may be of any desired form and appropriate size. On

the back of this plate there is secured a pin, a, and catch b, like those ordinarily on ladies breastpins, and for a like purpose-namely, for attaching the plate to the garment of a person, inside apocket, for instance, as shown in Fig. 1.

B B are the two arms of a spring, which arms are secured to the back of the plate A and brought over on opposite sides and down to a point just below the center of the pin, where they meet, as shown in Fig. 2.

O is the stud, which l term a perforated stud,7 because it has an eye formed in it, through which the arms ot' the spring B' pass when the article to which it is to lbe attached is secured to the plate A. The head of the stud has radiatingfrom it a number of prongs, d, which provide a means for attaching to ita pocket-book or other article, as shown in Fig. l-that is to say, they are thrust through perforation's in the cover of the pocket-book and clinched on the under side.

To attach and detach the pocket-book from the spring B, it is merely necessary in the former case to draw down upon the saine, so as to draw one of the sides of the eye out from the springs, and in the latter ca-seit is merely necessary to place one side of the eye on the upper side of one ot' the armsv of the spring andpress it down until the spring allows that side to pass through it, which at once causes the spring to be encircled by the eye, as can be readily understood.

I do not limit myself to the precise construction as herein stated. My object is to provine a ready means of securing a pocket-book or the like to a persons clothes, or in his pocket, which will permit of the person taking the pocketbook away from the springs and plate, when desired, and replacin git as quickly.

/Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Providing the plate A with the spring B, substantially as and for the purpose specified..

2. The combination of the button or stud E with the plate A and spring B, substantially.

A. RAYMOND, R. P. JAcKMAN. 

